| 单词 | grandiloquence |
| 例句 | With a certain dramatic grandiloquence, he slurped the oyster into his mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He energizes his soldiers with grandiloquence bordering on the Shakespearean, warning of “bloodthirsty rogues and unrepentant cutthroats bent on nothing short of our pitiless destruction.” ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z It remains more lyrical than some of his others: the scherzo, for instance, less driving, and the full second movement with an almost Hollywood air to its grandiloquence, at least in Eschenbach’s reading. Under Eschenbach, NSO pays dutiful homage to greatness 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z From smile to sneer he captures Barrymore’s majesty and grandiloquence, recites his triumphs and humiliations. Movie Review: ‘Barrymore’ Stars Christopher Plummer; Érik Canuel Directs 2012-11-14T23:24:22Z Arcade Fire's "My Body Is a Cage," in particular, achieved a majestic power thanks to Gabriel's intense vocals and the song's inherent grandiloquence. Gabriel's orchestral show slowly builds momentum 2010-05-05T01:55:00Z The dry grandiloquence of the narration puts Celeste at a remove, making her seem more distant than she might be in a movie more interested in milking the viewer’s empathy and tears. ‘Vox Lux’ Review: An Apocalyptic Star Is Born 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Like almost everything about the Academy Awards, it rewards tragedy rather than comedy, and grandiloquence rather than subtlety, so there is something operatic in lining up a five-part fantasy league of the best actress winners. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z “Authentic Presence” manages to feel weighty while also ephemeral, grand without grandiloquence, understated in its execution yet unafraid of dramatic gesture. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z It had all the grandiloquence, Calvert Vaux sneered, of Napoleon III. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake. A life in books: Lauren Child 2010-10-04T07:00:00Z Wagner was not a man capable of avoiding grandiloquence even when wearing carpet slippers. 'Ode to Joy': Seattle Symphony delivers a rapturous rendition of Beethoven's Ninth 2010-12-30T21:22:04Z So it's ironic that their decision that even God should be addressed merely as "thou" created a new jargon of pious grandiloquence. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z To have found expression for it, without grandiloquence, is no commonplace achievement. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z As the critic Justin Davidson put it, Johnson’s design for AT&T “deliberately made it hard to distinguish between true grandeur and mock grandiloquence.” For AT&T, Balancing Change and Preservation Under the Same Broken Pediment 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Most of all, many of the central characters seem modeled on ones from “Deadwood,” only without the flights of profanity and quasi-Shakespearean grandiloquence that made Mr. Milch’s dialogue so distinctive. Television Review: ?Hell on Wheels? on AMC ? Review 2011-11-03T22:25:01Z As he listened to the radio, the young artist was struck by the contrast between the grandiloquence of the Cuban and the quiet, almost apologetic tones of the Argentinian. Che Guevara's 'betrayer' tells his side of the story after 40 years 2013-07-03T13:53:10Z His often hilarious struggles are related by Big’s little brother, Meed — short for “Medium Big” — with a marvelously rough-hewn quality that is perfectly captured through the halting grandiloquence of Feodor Chin’s inspired narration. These 6 audiobooks present American history infused with fantastic twists 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The grandiosity of their adjectives and adverbs is the grandiloquence of their emotions. The Cost of Being ‘Savage’ in a Supposedly Civilized World 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z After watching the solemn ritual of voting in Noyers, I headed up, by train, to Paris, where Macron’s held a victory celebration at the Louvre on Sunday night that was Gallic in its grandiloquence. The French Vote, Celebrate, and Return to Normal in Grand Style 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z For us, important information has always been best conveyed with grandiloquence. Letters from Africa: Nigeria's art of flowery language - BBC News 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z His over-the-top grandiloquence puts him in another league. Rudy Giuliani is 2016’s Mr. Deplorable 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Balancing moments like that were more subdued performances that relied more on songwriting and expressive vocal strength than musical theater grandiloquence. CMT awards serve up country music ... without the country 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Cruz is a champion debater whose eloquence often crosses the line into grandiloquence; one pictures him wearing a plumed hat. Would Cruz be any better than Trump? 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z To an anglophone audience, all this posturing and grandiloquence, particularly in a local election, may seem a little absurd. Despite ‘Setback’, Marine Le Pen Isn't Going Anywhere 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z He enjoys keeping visitors off balance with alternating riffs of profanity and grandiloquence. As repairs continue, still no opening date for long-delayed Silver Spring transit center With a certain sense of grandiloquence, Sagan said: "The Tour is against me." Frustrated Sagan 'too strong' to win on Tour de France 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobics - those with a fear of such grandiloquence - will be happier. So long, long words? 2013-06-04T11:51:53Z And then the pageantry and grandiloquence of the epitaph! Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z But the Colonel's reserved and persistent grandiloquence finally got the better of the other's inclination to banter. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Had the poets of the Restoration ever dared to view their heroes from the comic point of view we should have been spared the bombastic grandiloquence of their Almanzors and Osmyns. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z A slight man with an air of gray-bearded grandiloquence, Brandston contends that his root objection to the law, which he calls “immoral,” is connected to his professional appreciation of incandescence, which mimics the natural spectrum. Bulb in, Bulb Out 2011-06-03T12:00:41Z In fact, our readers, 118 we are sure, will find the grandiloquence of these two tragedy-writers so very good that a little will suffice them. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z "I should like to see that pas seul, but first will you do me the extreme honor to dance this with me?" said Mr. Tucker, with mock grandiloquence. At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z Thus in the “Prologue in Heaven” he quizzes the Archangels about the grandiloquence of their song. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z I don't choose to expose myself to any more grandiloquence from your uncle about letters being 'written by your hand, but not dictated by your head.' A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Mere wordiness and grandiloquence may sound like ecstasy yet lack that quality. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Dependent largely upon the Church or upon an opulent aristocracy for patronage, they reflect the taste for grandiloquence, ostentation and splendid show which characterized, in this century, ecclesiastic and noble alike. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z Then he made a lamentable effort to deliver himself of fulminations after the manner of the Chief's grandiloquence. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The style is that of an African of the 5th century, full of grandiloquence, metaphors and strange words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z This short list will very nearly exhaust Bret Harte’s errors in the use of English; but it must be admitted, also, that he occasionally lapses into a Dickens-like grandiloquence and cant of superior virtue. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z He was waving his hand with his usual sense of the grandiloquence of his remarks. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew The brothers of Ignatius do not usually indulge in such grandiloquence, as does this remarkable statesman. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle The grandiloquence which was common at that time now appears to me to have been the natural expression of an exhilaration of mind which carried the speaker or writer beyond the bounds of commonplace speech. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 His grandiloquence is speedily interrupted by the outlaws, with Robin at their head, who surround him without further ado and make him the butt of their sport. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The interior effect is expressed in one word,—"grandiloquence." Cathedrals of Spain The former quotation gives, it may be incidentally mentioned, a good example of Herr Duehring's axiomatic grandiloquence. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" At other times he speaks in such grandiloquence of terms as make his hearers open their eyes and mouths in vacant and manifold interjections! Talkers With Illustrations It was written in a firm, manly tone, but without grandiloquence. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 On the other hand, there is the greater fulness of detail so characteristic of Bunyan's manner; and fulness of detail on a theme so far beyond our understanding is as dangerous as vague grandiloquence. Bunyan The usages of good society are regarded by them as a great restraint upon their besetting propensity to expatiate in phrases of grandiloquence, and to magnify objects of trivial importance. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He was young, and liked a bit of grandiloquence as well as another. Phoebe, Junior The source of all grandiloquence is the want of taking for a criterion the true qualities of the object described or the emotion expressed. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Written in bad French, it answered Alfieri's tragic grandiloquence with a cold civility, which shows how deeply his magnanimous compassion had wounded a woman who felt herself to be no more really corrupt than he. The Countess of Albany “Lend me a franc, laddie,” said McPhail, and when Doggie had slipped the coin into his palm, he addressed the child in unintelligible grandiloquence and sent her on her way mystified but rejoicing. The Rough Road Analysis is a terrible humiliation to your mysticism and your grandiloquence—and an awful bore to those who depend for effect on either. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It was forgotten that they were Orientals, who wrote in the language natural to them, with the customary grandiloquence of orientalism, with the poetic exaggeration which, in the East, was the breath of life. The Bertrams Here lies the distinction between grandiloquence and genuine fancy or bold imaginativeness. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete He only meant it for a jest, and nine girls out of ten even at sixteen would have understood his languid air of grandiloquence in an instant. Vagabondia 1884 My aforesaid shorthanded acquaintance has very fortunately preserved the literal transcript of my concluding oration, which will afford a feeble idea of the grandiloquence of my loquacity.—H. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. Restraining with a great effort his inclination to kick him, Vane shook the proffered hand; and for about ten minutes he suffered a torrent of grandiloquence in silence. Mufti The dignity of the court had been effectually swamped by the grandiloquence of Mr. C. Augustus Ebénier, though it was evident that he was a very important witness. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World It was Maggie who was becoming a mean figure in spite of her grandiloquence—perhaps because of it. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Yesterday I stopped by a small farm or ranch as local grandiloquence everseeking purple justification has it here. Greener Than You Think Johnson is often turgid and pompous, often grandiose with an artificial and undesired grandiloquence. Dr. Johnson and His Circle From earnestness to grandiloquence was but a step. Under the Rose She was always depressed by the Colonel's grandiloquence, which he usually reserved for The Greenbush and the town-meeting, without being able to account for it. Flamsted quarries In fact, our readers, we are sure, will find the grandiloquence of these two tragedy-writers so very good that a little will suffice them. Classic French Course in English The blundering inanity of this kind of writing is equaled only by its bumptious grandiloquence. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Vain attempts at oratory, result in nine cases out of ten, in grandiloquence and empty verbiage;—common thoughts expressed in pompous periods. The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young It is diverting in the extreme to observe the pompous grandiloquence in the advertisements of the amusement-furnishing public, about Christmas and New-Year. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 "He has again tried his luck at Exeter," said Miss Altifiorla, in a tone in which some slight shade of ridicule was mixed with the grandiloquence which she wished to assume. Kept in the Dark And the grandiloquence of Sharvilaka's Sanskrit in the satirical portion of the third act I have endeavored to imitate. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika His utterance was sonorous, with the mysterious pomp and grandiloquence of an oracle, kindling up at times into solemn denunciation. Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 When the fine ladies of the house try to convert him into a fashionable flunky, and teach him a little grandiloquence, he bluntly tells them he does not understand Latin. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 He observed that their grandiloquence was not eloquence and that their subtleties were but windy figures of speech. Memorials of the Faithful The crowd which always relished his grandiloquence, voted him into office with a shout, and cheered his soaring periods to their peroration. The Henchman A prevailing grandiloquence, which easily slides into pomposity, is its greatest blemish. Gibbon Since then, even in tragedy, where the natural dignity of the subject makes a swelling diction allowable, we cannot pardon a tasteless grandiloquence, how much more incongruous must it seem in sober prose! On the Sublime The language of the Félibres is by no means free from the grandiloquence and pomposity that results from the employment of these high-sounding and long terminations. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence He has a love of grandiloquence which is both Keltic and Saxon, and a delight in alliteration which is more especially Saxon. Anglo-Saxon Literature And even unto the present time the hospitality of the South, shorn of its profuseness and grandiloquence, is frequently the theme of newspaper hacks and magazine penny-a-liners. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South His humour, his best pathos, which is not that of grandiloquence, but of simplicity, his bright poetic fancy, his kindliness, all here find a place. Life of Charles Dickens Smith could not help smiling at the grandiloquence of the child's language, for in spite of her height, he realized that her years were but few. The Princess Pocahontas The auctioneer prefaced his inquiry for bids by the usual grandiloquence in use by members of that fraternity, closing his oration with that often-heard remark, "How much am I offered?" Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life When we handed him the letter from the prefecto he was quite unable to make aught of its grandiloquence. In Indian Mexico (1908) This was not an act of grandiloquence and mimicry. The Negro Something of the Senator's grandiloquence was returning to him, and he regarded Rose Mary with the pride of one who has appraised satisfactorily and is about to complete a proposed purchase. Rose of Old Harpeth Müller says that the Brâhmanas, though so very ancient, are full of pedantry, shallow and insipid grandiloquence and priestly conceit. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology He pressed Elton's hand and endeavored to express his gratitude with appropriate grandiloquence. Unleavened Bread He follows the Spanish tradition for restraint—for there is one, along its opposite tradition for grandiloquence—and, true to the spirit of it, he seeks the maximum of effect through the minimum of means. Tragic Sense Of Life The overtures are often very noble, but without pomposity or grandiloquence; indeed, they move as if unconscious of their own tremendous strength. Purcell No one could assert that it was untrue, but he told it with a grandiloquence that carried no conviction. The Magician The book is a charming badinage, a bizarre ragoût of gastronomic precepts and spicy anecdote, doubly piquant for its prevailing tone of mock seriousness and intentional grandiloquence. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 He has sanity lucidity, pointedness, sometimes epigrammatic piquancy, of expression, dignity without pompousness or grandiloquence, feeling without hysteria. Haydn His conversation was embellished by high-flown grandiloquence, and he invariably walked upon the heels of his boots. The Parish Clerk Those little houses at the top of the street, dwarfed by the grandiloquence on the opposite side, are too small, too. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor He spoke execrable French, but there was a grandiloquence about his vocabulary which set everyone laughing. The Magician D.'s poems exhibit fancy and brilliancy of diction, but want simplicity, and sometimes run into grandiloquence and other faults of the so-called spasmodic school to which he belonged. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Applied to an oration which is full of bombast and grandiloquence; to a foppish fellow; to an apartment gayly adorned, &c. A Collection of College Words and Customs She was evidently confounded by my friend's grandiloquence. In the Days of My Youth Vain attempts at oratory result, in nine cases out of ten, in grandiloquence and empty verbiage—common thoughts expressed in pompous periods. The Teacher The walls which had echoed with forensic grandiloquence were now forced to hear only the bleating of silly sheep. The Mystery of Metropolisville He could appreciate the vast learning and stately grandiloquence of Gibbon, and the widely different style of Robertson. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I Listen to him while--and don't, oh, I say, don't stare at me like that,' he continued hurriedly, plaintiveness suddenly taking the place of grandiloquence. The Castle Inn The differentiation of slave types was nevertheless little more than rudimentary; for most of those who were lowliest on work days assumed a grandiloquence of manner when they donned their holiday clothes. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime He offered comment very chilling to the warm grandiloquence of the orator. Penrod Whenever Hudson uttered some peculiarly striking piece of youthful grandiloquence, Cecilia broke into a long, light, familiar laugh. Roderick Hudson "I'm dressed in all the cloth of gold you have woven for me," quoth Zoe, in mock grandiloquence, still pitched to her exultant key and in all her youthful capacity for it, full of self. Star-Dust I drew him out of the hot sun and into a secluded archway, he talking straight on with a speed and pitiful grandiloquence totally unlike him. Strong Hearts Not that Cicero was to him the same as Cato, who with his Stoic grandiloquence must, to his thinking, have been altogether useless. The Life of Cicero Volume One So no matter how he might glory himself in logical grandiloquence, or how he might attempt to out-talk me in a head-teacher-style, I don't care a snap. Botchan (Master Darling) It is extravagant grandiloquence confined to a newspaper about the size of a double letter sheet. Roughing It, Part 8. She spoke with her deliberate volubility, neither hesitating nor hurrying, her meaning, for all its grandiloquence of setting, very definite, and Jack looked a little dazed, as though from the superabundance of meaning. A Fountain Sealed Nothing could have been more fortunate; it afforded a fine scope for my favorite vein of grandiloquence. The Crayon Papers Possibly Miss Corson was covering embarrassment with the jaunty grandiloquence that she displayed. All-Wool Morrison The grandiloquence went out of the voice of Telfer and his face became serious. Windy McPherson's Son After perpetually immolating the Tarquins and the Pisistratids in inflated grandiloquence, they would go to lick the dust off a tyrant's shoes. Seekers after God In our anxiety lest we err on the side of grandiloquence we may perhaps fall into the opposite error of tameness. The Principles of Success in Literature In another passage the grandiloquence and the vanity of the poet of the Pharsalia are well depicted. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 What warrant is there for the grandiloquence of the phrase: the Oldest part of the Mind? The Glands Regulating Personality In its construction, and grandiloquence are thrown about with the careless disregard for innocent passers-by which characterizes that poet's freedom of style. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870 Further, put a stopper on bombast and grandiloquence and mannerism; be neither supercilious nor overbearing; cease to carp at other people's performances and to count their loss your gain. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 Eloquence, as I said before, cannot spring from the simple desire to be eloquent; the desire usually leads to grandiloquence. The Principles of Success in Literature It was mostly put on, of course, this false grandiloquence of the prig. A Prisoner in Fairyland But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle —how excessively odd! Short Stories for English Courses She knew all the lines by heart, in their spacious grandiloquence; lines such as: The Old Wives' Tale And yet, for all its grandiloquence, there was something in his speech that rang hard and true. Heart of the Sunset He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence. The Principles of Success in Literature "We do not take much notice of these checks; they do not depress us for a moment," said M. Formery, with some return of his old grandiloquence. Arsene Lupin Mrs. Dodd smiled at the grandiloquence of youth, and told him he had mistaken her character. Hard Cash Intensifying for a moment the grandiloquence of his manner, he called upon his master's most distinguished and happily arrived old friend, the Lord Lieutenant Governor of the Golden Californias, to corroborate his statement. A Ward of the Golden Gate But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle— how excessively odd! The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American |
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